Re: Initialization and Finalization of limited object "returned" by a function

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>]

"(Hibou57) Yannick Duch�ne" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:

> Le Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:10:19 +0100, Robert A Duff
> <bobduff@shell01.theworld.com> a �crit:
>>>> Extended return statements are not so important for nonlimited types,
>>>> but they do come in handy in that case, too.
>>> While this may be useful, if it was, to have a way to return none-
>>> limited as built-in-place, for efficiency purpose (just suggesting
>>> this be to investigated, I do not assert this could surely be done
>>> like this and as-is).
>>
>> Again, extended returns do NOT cause build-in-place.
>> For non-limited, the compiler may choose build-in-place
>> for efficiency in some cases.
>>
>> - Bob
> It was a suggestion...

You mean a suggestion for the language,
or a suggestion for a compiler optimization?

If the latter, well, I think the compiler ought
to do the optimization whether or not the code
uses extended return.

>...(you seems to really be afraid of this possible
> confusion)

Well, yeah, lots of people seem to think that
extended return does much more than it does.
I'm just trying to help avoid that confusion.  ;-)

- Bob